Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman is an American actor and narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with Million Dollar Baby, and he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemptionand Invictus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including Glory, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Seven, Deep Impact, The Sum of All Fears,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 June 1937
CityMemphis, TN
CountryUnited States of America
I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.
I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.
The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.
It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.
I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.
I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.
And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.
I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so.' I'm not a type. I'm an actor.